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> [The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/the-writer-labors-in-isolation-yet-all-that-intensive-lonely-work-is/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

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## More by Betsy Lerner

> [But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/but-editors-are-still-the-world-s-readers-and-thus-the-eyes-of-the/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/in-discovering-books-you-became-free-to-explore-the-full-range-of/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/tomorrow-i-am-fifty-two-years-old-and-i-want-to-say-unequivocally/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/i-wondered-if-i-was-just-the-sum-of-my-brain-scan-little-dots/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/i-hadn-t-been-able-to-trust-since-the-age-of-four-i-was-torn-between/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/all-writers-are-like-bomb-throwers-whether-they-attack-with-dense/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/god-grant-me-the-serenity-to-accept-the-things-i-can-not-change-the/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/the-world-doesn-t-fully-make-sense-until-the-writer-has-secured-his/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/for-most-writers-reading-is-also-a-very-intense-experience-they-don-t/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/the-writer-labors-in-isolation-yet-all-that-intensive-lonely-work-is/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/the-world-doesn-t-fully-make-sense-until-the-writer-has-secured-his-2/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/indeed-the-great-paradox-of-the-writer-s-life-is-how-much-time-he/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/i-had-officially-joined-the-cacophony-of-sick-mother-fuckers/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [“For the writer who truly loves language, a trip to the copy editor is like a week at a spa. You come out looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/for-the-writer-who-truly-loves-language-a-trip-to-the-copy-editor-is/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

> [When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betsy-lerner/when-an-editor-works-with-an-author-she-cannot-help-seeing-into-the/)

[Betsy Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betsy-lerner/)

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